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I totally agree with your opinion here, and especially that "cheating and petty corruption" - and the breakdown of public trust that follows - is an actual existential threat, something that may ultimately lead to a collapse of technological civilization. The current trend of trying to figure out trustless solutions for everything actually worries me.

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The current trend of trying to figure out trustless solutions for everything actually worries me.

If you're worried about breakdown in the face of loss of trust, then these sorts of solutions seem like very important things to be looking at. Do we have any good ideas about how to create trust at the institutional level?

I agree with your concerns. I think they are representative of a broader theme - the acceleration of technical change seems like it will eventually (if it hasn't already) bring us to a point where the rate of cultural change is too slow to catch up to properly adapt to what is now possible.

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